Escha Rose

Let Me Go!

ESCHA POINT OF VIEW

I grunt as i get kicked over and over. I haven't cried yet for the four days that they've been torturing me only for one reason:Lacey. They showed me a video of her receiving the letter and they threatened that if she called the police that they would kill her. 

I flipped, they shot me up with some stuff that made me dizzy and immobile for a while. At first i was confused as to why they would take and torture me but then i realized why. Kate. 

This is a f****d up way for  me to find out that she is my blood sister and that my mom was her mom. Imagine that. I was all alone getting r***d and abused and my mom left me for her. She told me that i killed her dad but i know that i didn't. Unless... we had the same father. 

"GET UP b***h,TIME TO EAT, DON'T WANT YOU TO DIE OF STARVATION BEFORE I CAN f*****g KILL YOU" I hear Kate yell walking into the basement they have me in. I don't eat. Every thing that they give me i throw it up anyway. And i only throw it up because every time i eat they hit and kick me, making  me vomit. Its sick. I'm not even hungry any more.

Kate kneels down in front of me and pulls my head up to meet her eyes. My vision is blurry but i can see the amusement in her eyes. "Don't want to talk to me, Rose?" she says slapping my cheek."It sucks doesn't it?" she stands up and takes a few steps back. she turns around to get the food she has brought me. "Knowing that your gonna die by my hands, when it was YOU who threatened to kill me." she started snickering like she said a private joke that i didn't hear. 

"IT f*****g SUCKS RIGHT?" She yells coming back to me throwing the plate down making it shatter into a million pieces. She kicks me in my stomach making me let out a short puff of air. 

"i think that i should kill you.. No i know that i should kill you. You killed my father. Why?" she asks looking down at me. She looked almost...hurt. But i can't be sure. she fooled Lacey. when i don't answer she yells in frustration and leaves. i sit there getting more and more sleepy. I need my rest. I'm going to get out and when i do im going to kill her for thinking she can hurt me and Lacey with getting away. She stepped over a line. And then i close my eyes to take me a nap.

* 

its been two days since i last seen Kate. I have been waiting for her to come back. But no one comes in. Its just me. By myself for the last two days. I'm starting to think that she is just going to let me sit down here and rot.

That thought diminishes just as soon as i hear the chains and locks being undone from the door. I fix myself back on the floor to make it look like i haven't moved from the spot she left me in two days ago. One of the men who took me comes in with a sympathetic look on his face. He si ts the food down and tells me to eat up. the look in his eyes are begging me to eat. He walks out without saying anything else. Something is telling me not to eat the food, so i don't think i want to eat it..

*

2 hours later

i'm hungry. so hungry. I wasn't at first but now i am. I scoot over to where i pushed the food away earlier and i run my finger through it.. checking for anything that doesn't feel right. I stop when my hand hits something hard. Grabbing it and pulling, out comes a key. I immediately forget my hunger and unlock the chains around my wrists and ankles.

Thank you , god , i speak in my head.

I wonder why he would try to help me. 

I  look up when I hear the door being opened again. The same man comes in and stands in front of me. 

"Why?" i ask in a whisper "Why help me?" my voice is raspy whisper from days without water. I look weak from the outside but my dad used to go a while without feeding and giving me water. I know i can survive now. 

"Because.. Because kid, if you can get yourself out i can go home to my kid. She took me from my kid and my wife, and i want them back." he pauses to take a breath and too look over his shoulder. He turns back to me and continues, "plus the way she is treating you just aint right. when we came to get you i thought it would just be to hold you for money. The first time i seen her hit you i wanted out. So help me help you kid."

I couldn't believe my ears. I give a barely noticeable nod and he seems satisfied with that.

"she will be back in a couple of days so rest up. this is all  I can do so I really hope you get out." and with that he leaves. 

I sit there for a minute and think. could this be a joke? I'm not sure what all of this means, I really just want to make sure that Lacey is okay. 

Lord help me out, please. And with that last thought I lay my head back and try to sleep